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In the 1920s, in the south Indian village of Vykom, a nonviolent struggle sought to open to everyone the roads surrounding the Brahmin temple there. For centuries, any person or animal could walk those roads but not the so-called untouchable Hindus, whose use of the roads would "pollute" the high castes. From April 1924 to November 1925, Gandhi waged a satyagraha to put an end to this blatant discrimination. <p>Gandhi believed that the Vykom struggle would eliminate severe practices of untouchab

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Author

Mary Elizabeth King

Publisher

Oxford University Press India

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199085279

Category

biography

Subjects

History, Political Science, Peace

Updated

2026-03-25